Gold Ogle Award for, "The Field," Best Fantasy/Horror/Mystery Audio Production of the Year presented by the American Society for Science Fiction Audio and the Minnesota Society for Interest in Science Fiction and Fantasy.

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Modern dance
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Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance, primarily arising out of Germany and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Modern dance is considered to have emerged as a rejection of. Socioeconomic and cultural factors contributed to its development. In the late 19th century, dance artists such as Isadora Duncan, Maud Allan, moving into the 1960s, new ideas about dance began to emerge, as a response to earlier dance forms and to social changes. Eventually, postmodern dance artists would reject the formalism of modern dance, and include such as performance art, contact improvisation, release technique. American modern dance can be divided into three periods or eras, Modern dance has evolved with each subsequent generation of participating artists. Artistic content has morphed and shifted from one choreographer to another, artists such as Graham and Horton developed techniques in the Central Modern Period that are still taught worldwide, and numerous other types of modern dance exist today. In America, increasing industrialization, the rise of a class, and the decline of Victorian social strictures led to, among other changes. It was in this atmosphere that a new dance was emerging as much from a rejection of social structures as from a dissatisfaction with ballet, womens colleges began offering aesthetic dance courses by the end of the 1880s. Emil Rath, who wrote at length about this emerging artform at the stated, Music and rhythmic bodily movement are twin sisters of art. 1877, Isadora Duncan was a predecessor of modern dance with her stress on the center or torso, bare feet, loose hair, free-flowing costumes, and incorporation of humor into emotional expression. She was inspired by classical Greek arts, folk dances, social dances, nature, natural forces, and new American athleticism such as skipping, running, jumping, leaping and she thought that ballet was ugly and meaningless gymnastics. Although she returned to the United States at various points in her life and she returned to Europe and died in Nice in 1927. 1891, Loie Fuller began experimenting with the effect that gas lighting had on her silk costumes, Fuller developed a form of natural movement and improvisation techniques that were used in conjunction with her revolutionary lighting equipment and translucent silk costumes. She patented her apparatus and methods of lighting that included the use of coloured gels and burning chemicals for luminescence. 1905, Ruth St. Denis, influenced by the actress Sarah Bernhardt and Japanese dancer Sada Yacco, developed her translations of Indian culture and her performances quickly became popular and she toured extensively while researching Oriental culture and arts. Other pioneers included Kurt Jooss and Harald Kreutzberg, an accomplished choreographer, she was a founding artist of the first American Dance Festival in Bennington. Holm choreographed extensively in the fields of dance and musical theater

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Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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Part of Brooklyn Community Board 1, the neighborhood is served in the south by the NYPDs 90th Precinct and in the north by the 94th Precinct. On the New York City Council, the western and southern parts of the neighborhood are represented by the 33rd District, and its eastern part by the 34th District. As of the 2010 United States Census, the neighborhood had a population of 32,926, since the late 1990s, Williamsburg has undergone gentrification characterized by hipster culture, a contemporary art scene, and vibrant nightlife. During the early 2000s, the became a center for indie rock and electroclash. Numerous ethnic groups inhabit enclaves within the neighborhood, including Italians, Jews, Hispanics, Poles, Puerto Ricans, in 1638 the Dutch West India Company first purchased the areas land from the local Native Americans. In 1661, the company chartered the Town of Boswijck, including land that would later become Williamsburg, after the English takeover of New Netherland in 1664, the towns name was anglicized to Bushwick. During colonial times, villagers called the area Bushwick Shore and this name lasted for about 140 years. Bushwick residents called Bushwick Shore the Strand, farmers and gardeners from the other Bushwick villages sent their goods to Bushwick Shore to be ferried across the East River to New York City for sale via a market at present day Grand Street. Bushwick Shores favorable location close to New York City led to the creation of several farming developments, in 1802, real estate speculator Richard M. Woodhull acquired 13 acres near what would become Metropolitan Avenue, then North 2nd Street. He had Colonel Jonathan Williams, a U. S. Engineer, survey the property, Williamsburg was incorporated in as the, Village of Williamsburgh within the Town of Bushwick in 1827. In two years it had a company, a post office and a population of over 1,000. The deep drafts along the East River encouraged industrialists, many from Germany, raw material was shipped in, and finished products were sent out of factories straight to the docks. Several sugar barons built processing refineries, Now all are gone except the now-defunct Domino Sugar. Other important industries included shipbuilding and brewing, on April 18,1835, the Village of Williamsburg annexed a portion of the Town of Bushwick. The Village then consisted of three districts, the first district was commonly called the South Side, the second district was called the North Side, and the third district was called the New Village. The names North Side and South Side remain in common usage today, the New Village became populated by Germans and for a time was known by the sobriquet of Dutchtown. In 1845 the population of Williamsburgh was 11,500, reflecting its increasing urbanization, Williamsburg separated from Bushwick as the Town of Williamsburg in 1840. It became the City of Williamsburg in 1852, which was organized into three wards, the old First Ward roughly coincides with the South Side and the Second Ward with the North Side, with the modern boundary at Grand Street

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Twitter
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, tweets, restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, in 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has described as the SMS of the Internet. As of 2016, Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users. On the day of the 2016 U. S. presidential election, Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news, Twitters origins lie in a daylong brainstorming session held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then a student at New York University. The original project name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass, inspired by Flickr. The developers initially considered 10958 as a code, but later changed it to 40404 for ease of use. Work on the project started on March 21,2006, when Dorsey published the first Twitter message at 9,50 PM Pacific Standard Time, Dorsey has explained the origin of the Twitter title. we came across the word twitter, and it was just perfect. The definition was a short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds, and thats exactly what the product was. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as a service for Odeo employees. Williams fired Glass, who was silent about his part in Twitters startup until 2011, Twitter spun off into its own company in April 2007. Williams provided insight into the ambiguity that defined this early period in a 2013 interview, With Twitter and they called it a social network, they called it microblogging, but it was hard to define, because it didnt replace anything. There was this path of discovery with something like that, where over time you figure out what it is, Twitter actually changed from what we thought it was in the beginning, which we described as status updates and a social utility. It is that, in part, but the insight we eventually came to was Twitter was really more of an information network than it is a social network, the tipping point for Twitters popularity was the 2007 South by Southwest Interactive conference. During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000, the Twitter people cleverly placed two 60-inch plasma screens in the conference hallways, exclusively streaming Twitter messages, remarked Newsweeks Steven Levy

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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
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Law & Order, Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30,2001, Criminal Intent focuses on the investigations of the Major Case Squad in a fictionalized version of the New York City Police Department set in New York Citys One Police Plaza. In the style of the original Law & Order, episodes are often ripped from the headlines or loosely based on a crime that received media attention. The series aired on NBC for the first six seasons but was moved to the NBCUniversal-owned USA Network starting with the season to share costs. During its NBC run, each episode aired on USA the week after its original NBC airing, the series ended on June 26,2011, after 10 seasons comprising 195 episodes. The Major Case Squad investigates high-profile cases such as those involving VIPs, local government officials and employees, the industry. The series pays attention to the actions and motives of the criminals, rather than focusing exclusively on the police and prosecutions. A feature of each Criminal Intent episode is that the cold open always involves a series of cut-scenes that show events from the suspects and victims lives, clues to the crimes eventual solution can often be found in this teaser sequence. Unlike other Law & Order series, most Criminal Intent episodes end in confessions rather than continuing to the trial phase, seasons 1-4 and 10 focus on Detectives Robert Bobby Goren and Alexandra Eames as the primary detectives in every episode. After season 7, Mike Logan retired from the NYPD and was replaced with Detective Zack Nichols until season 10, the UK-aired version of Law & Order, Criminal Intent features the song Theres Only Me by Rob Dougan in the opening credits. Another Rob Dougan track, Im Not Driving Anymore, is used as the theme for Law & Order and Law & Order, from season 6 the UK-aired version theme is Urban Warfare by Paul Dinletir. Law & Order, Criminal Intent was created in 2001 by René Balcer, Balcer served as the shows executive producer, showrunner, and head writer for its first five seasons. The show dominated its time slot on Sundays at 9,00 p. m. for its first three seasons, and was often the highest-rated show of the night, with an average audience of 15.5 million viewers. The show aired Sundays on NBC, with each episode being repeated on USA Network the following Saturday. Beginning in Season 4, it faced new competition from ABCs night-time soap opera Desperate Housewives. Balcer left the show at the end of Season 5, and the show was handed off to Warren Leight, under Leights leadership, the show acquired a new, more melodramatic tone. The mystery aspect of the show was simplified in favor of personal stories involving the detectives. For example, Goren endured his mothers battle with cancer

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Parsons Dance Company
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Parsons Dance is a contemporary dance company founded by choreographer David Parsons. The company tours nationally and internationally, and includes a season in New York. Based in New York City, Parsons Dance was founded on July 17,1985, by David Parsons, since its founding, Parsons Dance has toured to six continents. Parsons Dance is the dance company in history to perform at all three Spoleto Festivals in a single season. Parsons Dance has been seen on PBS, Bravo, A&E, millions watched worldwide as Parsons Dance performed live in New York’s Times Square, as part of the internationally broadcast, 24-hour Millennium New Year’s Eve celebration on December 31,1999. The company consists of nine full-time dancers, Parsons Dance has collaborated with many other artists, including Julie Taymor, William Ivey Long, Annie Leibovitz, Donna Karan and Alex Katz. Since 1985, Parsons Dance has toured an average of 32 weeks per year, to a total of more than 235 cities,30 countries, six continents, many others have seen Parsons Dance on PBS, Bravo, A&E Network, and the Discovery Channel. Millions watched Parsons Dance perform live in Times Square as part of the internationally broadcast, official website Parsons Dance CAMI Spectrum – Artist Representation Parsons Dance Company, Parsons Strips And

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Twyla Tharp
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Twyla Tharp is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City. In 1966, she formed her own company Twyla Tharp Dance and her work often uses classical music, jazz, and contemporary pop music. From 1971 to 1988, Twyla Tharp Dance toured extensively around the world, in 1973, Tharp choreographed Deuce Coupe to the music of The Beach Boys for the Joffrey Ballet. Deuce Coupe is considered to be the first crossover ballet, later she choreographed Push Comes to Shove, which featured Mikhail Baryshnikov and is now thought to be the best example of the crossover ballet. In 1988, Twyla Tharp Dance merged with American Ballet Theatre, Tharp was born in 1941 on a farm in Portland, Indiana, the daughter of Lucille and William Tharp. She was named for Twila Thornburg, the Pig Princess of the 89th Annual Muncie Fair in Indiana as related in her own book The Creative Habit, Learn It and Use It for Life. As a young child, Tharp spent a few each year living with her Quaker grandparents on their farm in Indiana. Her mother insisted she take lessons in dance, and piano, drum, viola, violin, shorthand, German, in 1950, Tharps family—younger sister Twanette, twin brothers Stanley and Stanford, and her parents—moved to Rialto, California. Her parents opened a movie theater, where Tharp worked. The drive-in was on the corner of Acacia and Foothill, the major east–west artery in Rialto and she attended Pacific High School in San Bernardino and studied at the Vera Lynn School of Dance. Tharp, a bookworm, admits that her schedule left little time for a social life. Tharp attended Pomona College in California but later transferred to Barnard College in New York City and it was in New York that she studied with Richard Thomas, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. In 1963 Tharp joined the Paul Taylor Dance Company, in 1965, Tharp choreographed her first dance Tank Dive and formed her own company, Twyla Tharp Dance. Her work often utilizes classical music, jazz, and contemporary pop music, from 1971 to 1988, Twyla Tharp Dance toured extensively around the world, performing original works. In 1973, Tharp choreographed Deuce Coupe to the music of The Beach Boys for the Joffrey Ballet, Deuce Coupe is considered to be the first crossover ballet. Later she choreographed Push Comes to Shove, which featured Mikhail Baryshnikov and is now thought to be the best example of the crossover ballet. In 1988, Twyla Tharp Dance merged with American Ballet Theatre, in 2010, they had a total of 20 of her works in their repertory. Tharp also created the dance roadshow Cutting Up with Mikhail Baryshnikov, in the summer of 2000, Twyla Tharp Dance regrouped with entirely new dancers

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Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 4)
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The fourth season of Law & Order, Criminal Intent premiered on NBC on September 26,2004, and ended May 25,2005. The series remained in its time slot of Sundays at 9 PM/8c, stars Vincent DOnofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, and Courtney B. Vance returned for the fourth season, around mid-season, star Vincent DOnofrio fainted twice from exhaustion, once on set and again at his home. Writers René Balcer and Elizabeth Benjamin won an Edgar Award in the category Best Episode in a Television Series Teleplay, for the episode Want. Almost three months before the season finale, it was announced Chris Noth would join the show in the fifth season, alternating episodes with DOnofrio. NBC renewed Law & Order, Criminal Intent for a season on May 12,2004. Two versions of the episode were shot before the voting began on October 6, the East Coast viewers saw Wallace live, the West Coast viewers saw her die. More than 116,000 viewers cast a vote online and we are very gratified by the response, said show runner-executive producer René Balcer, Weve always seen this as a gift to our fans, to thank them for their continuing dedication to the series. Live or die, well abide by their decision, the choice of Wallace living became the outcome, but Wallace is believed to be killed in the seventh season by Detective Gorens mentor, Dr. Declan Gage. But having fooled Declan Gage and faked her own death, Wallace reappeared in 2012 in Paris in the Catacombs episode of the series Jo featuring Jean Reno and Jill Hennessy and created by René Balcer. Previous original Law & Order actor Chris Noth guest-stars in the episode Stress Position as his character Detective Mike Logan before returning to join the cast for the fifth season

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Bones (TV series)
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Bones is an American crime procedural drama television series that aired on Fox in the United States from September 13,2005, until March 28,2017, for 246 episodes over twelve seasons. Temperance Bones Brennan and the lives of the characters. The rest of the main cast includes Michaela Conlin, T. J. Thyne, Eric Millegan, Jonathan Adams, Tamara Taylor, John Francis Daley, and John Boyd. Created by Hart Hanson, the series is loosely based on the life and writings of novelist and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs. Its title character, Temperance Brennan, is named after the protagonist of Reichs crime novel series, similarly, Dr. Brennan in the Bones universe writes successful mystery novels featuring a fictional forensic anthropologist named Kathy Reichs. Bones is a joint production by Josephson Entertainment, Far Field Productions, the series is the longest-running one-hour drama series produced by 20th Century Fox Television. On February 25,2016, the series was renewed for a twelfth and final season, the series finale aired on March 28,2017. The premise of the show is an alliance between forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Bones Brennan and FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, set in Washington, D. C. the show revolves around solving Federal legal cases by examining the human remains of possible murder victims. Dr. Brennan and her team provide scientific expertise and Special Agent Booth provides FBI criminal investigation technique, in addition to the prospective murder cases featured in each episode, the series explores the backgrounds and relationships of its characters. An important ongoing dynamic between Brennan and Booth is their disagreement about science and faith, Brennan argues for science, evidence, and atheism. Booth argues for intuition, faith, and God, the series is also known for its dark comedic undertones, featuring human bodies in advanced state of decay, which serve to lighten the gravity of the shows intense subject matter. Emily Deschanel as Dr. Temperance Bones Brennan, A brilliant forensic anthropologist working at the renowned Jeffersonian Institute located in Washington and she is an empiricist and author of crime fiction based on her experiences. She is an atheist and a believer in facts and evidence, to the exclusion of feelings, consequently, she comes off as distant. Nevertheless, she has shown empathy and compassion and she is noted to have a high IQ and impressive reasoning skills. She and her FBI partner, Seeley Booth, begin a relationship near the end of six and have a daughter they name Christine, in honor of her late mother. A son, Hank, named for Booths paternal grandfather is born in season 11, Brennans original name was Joy Keenan, which was changed after her parents decided to turn away from a life of crime. The character is used as an audience surrogate to provide a laymans translation of the scientific jargon-filled dialog. He gives Brennan her nickname, Bones, which she starts out hating and he is a skilled investigator and interrogator who often relies on his gut and cop instincts

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Crash (2008 TV series)
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Crash is an American television drama series set in Los Angeles, California that starred Dennis Hopper and Eric Roberts. It is the first original series produced by the Starz network, the network ordered a 13 episode season which premiered on October 17,2008. The series is based on the 2004 film of the same name and it was developed for television by Glen Mazzara. In Canada, Crash can be seen on Super Channel, Starz ordered a second season that premiered in September 2009 before concluding in December 2009. Lead actor Dennis Hopper died in May 2010 and the series did not continue, Crash is the networks first foray into original scripted drama and is based on the Academy Award winning 2004 film of the same name. The writers of the film, Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco, were interested in developing a series based on the property, lionsgate and Starz collaborated on developing the series for television. Television writer and producer Glen Mazzara was brought in as a producer for the series. Mazzara has worked extensively as a writer and producer on The Shield and had developed new projects for the other networks including Life, Glen Mazzara served as the series executive producer and showrunner. The films writers Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco and producer Bob Yari joined Mazzara as executive producers. Thomas Becker, Mark R. Harris, Tom Nunan, Movie actor Don Cheadle, who was a star and producer of the 2004 film, is also on board as a co-executive producer. Mazzara hired a staff that he felt was used to coping with edgier material. Co-executive producer and writer Frank Renzulli had previously worked on HBO drama The Sopranos, co-executive producer and writer Ted Mann worked on HBO drama Deadwood. Producer and writer Stacy Rukeyser worked with Mazzara on Standoff, executive story editor Chris Collins came from the recently completed HBO drama The Wire. Executive story editor Randy Huggins had previously worked with Mazzara on The Shield, the pilot episode was directed by Sanford Bookstaver. Tarabay as a detective Axel Finet Trilby Glover as his wife Ann Finet Tom Sizemore as Detective Adrian Cooper. Battaglia is a security guard and then working for Blanchard and some of the cast members from season 1, Tur, Carey, Sweeney, Tee, Chavez, Tarabay. Jenny Mollen plays Tess, the new girlfriend to Kenny Battaglia, however, Varietys Brian Lowry wrote, Theres not a whit of originality to it, and The show possesses less substance than a brisk Santa Ana wind. According to Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe, None of the stories or characters is remotely interesting, but Newsday wrote, Gritty, jarring, profane, the first series of Crash was released on DVD in the USA on September 15,2009

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United States of Tara
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United States of Tara is an American television comedy-drama created by Diablo Cody, which aired on Showtime from 2009 to 2011. The series follows the life of Tara, a suburban housewife, the series was based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, who is the executive producer, under his DreamWorks Television label. Other executive producers include writers Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, director Craig Zisk, former executive producer Alexa Junge quit as showrunner after the first season. Principal photography was filmed in Los Angeles, California, while the setting is located in Overland Park. Collette won the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award and 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for her role, the shows third and final season premiered on March 28,2011. On May 23,2011, Showtime announced that the series would not be renewed for a season. Tara Gregson is a wife and mother of two children in Overland Park, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, who has been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. When stressed, Tara often transitions into one of her personalities, wild and flirty teenager T, 1950s style housewife Alice. A fourth personality, Gimme, is introduced later in the first season, during the second season of the series, two further personalities were introduced. The former, called Shoshana, is Taras therapist of sorts, while the sixth name is Chicken. Another personality emerges in Season 3, that of Taras previously unknown half-brother Bryce, Tara is supported by her husband Max, daughter Kate, and son Marshall. The show is a representation of a seemingly typical American family who must cope with the struggles of dissociative identity disorder. The series premiered on the US network Showtime on January 18,2009, Season two premiered on March 22,2010. On March 25, three days after the season 2 premiere, it was announced that it would be picked up for a season which aired in spring 2011. Season 3 officially premiered on March 28,2011, on May 23,2011, it was announced that the series would not be renewed for a fourth season. Initial critical response to the show was positive, with reviewers praising Collettes acting. Episodes 1 and 2 were also available as bonus features on DVD disc 4 of Dexter, Season 3, in Australia, United States of Tara was rated MA 15+, whereas in New Zealand, it was rated R13 for offensive language and sexual references. Official website United States of Tara at the Internet Movie Database United States of Tara at TV. com